DreamWorks Headquarters, Glendale, Los Angeles.

Spielberg has been busy these days, and the projects under DreamWorks have had problems one after another.

"How is the investigation?" Spielberg asked the assistant.

"Robert Rayford had already verbally agreed to serve as the director of the "Return to Glory" project." The assistant quickly said: "This sudden remorse was after Disney people had contacted him. I don't know what Disney and Robert Rayford talked about, but Disney should have sent him an invitation."

Spielberg took off his disc glasses and wiped them, saying, "Why did MPAA delay the review of the ratings of our two movies?"

The assistant replied: "Mpaa said that some lenses and lines are too large to meet the requirements of PG-13."

The mpaa is controlled by the six major players. DreamWorks has no say. Spielberg was helpless and said, "Retract and modify it quickly according to the requirements of mpaa."

Things have been going wrong in DreamWorks recently, and it seems that someone is targeting DreamWorks.

As the director who picked up the camera and the standard businessman Spielberg could feel this.

Spielberg asked, "What else is bad news?"

The assistant said carefully: "The theater said that the preview effect of "Gladiator" was not good, and it was necessary to compress the scale of the video's opening..."

"I get it." Spielberg had the urge to curse.

But the good cultivation that the old man has cultivated for many years has made him endure.

Spielberg put on his disc glasses and asked, "David, what do you think about it?"

The assistant thought about it and replied: "Someone is specifically targeting DreamWorks."

"Six Big Companies." Spielberg said the answer: "They don't like a powerful dream factory."

In fact, since two or three years ago, the six major companies have often caused some trouble for DreamWorks, but this time, the troubles have emerged too concentrated.

It seems that the six major companies can no longer stand DreamWorks.

Spielberg couldn't understand why this was for a moment. DreamWorks has made a lot of compromises in front of the six majors, such as the overseas distribution of live-action movies and animated movies were all handed over to the six major distribution labels in exchange for the necessary development space.

Could it be that DreamWorks is developing too fast that makes the six major companies feel threatened?

Not right, DreamWorks is just just getting on the right track at best.

"I will deal with these things myself." Spielberg attached great importance to it and said, "You can call me to ask Director Robert Rayford first."

As the assistant was about to leave, Spielberg asked again: "Is there any news over Albert?"

“Not yet…”

Before the assistant finished speaking, the phone rang on the desk. Spielberg answered the phone. After saying a few words, his face became more serious. He hung up the phone and said to the assistant: "Subscribe me a plane ticket to Japan tomorrow. These Japanese people are too untrustworthy!"

"I'll go now." The assistant didn't understand what was going on, but the boss didn't say it, and it was hard to ask.

Spielberg said again: "You go with me too, prepare some information, related to "Midnight Bell".

The assistant didn't ask much and said, "Yes."

Spielberg first called director Robert Rayford, made an appointment to meet in the afternoon, and asked the production department to deal with the troubles on MPAA, the distribution department went to argue with several major theater chain companies, and then began to think about the Japanese.

Originally, Japan's Ace company had reached an agreement with DreamWorks and was preparing to sell the copyright of "Midnight Bell" to DreamWorks. Recently, Sony Entertainment suddenly made a fuss, and Ace seemed to want to change its mind.

This is a project Spielberg is very optimistic about and will not give up easily.

It was busy late at night on the day. Spielberg was dealing with the troubles encountered by DreamWorks. The next morning, he rushed to the airport and flew to Japan.

Not only Spielberg, but most of the management of DreamWorks live-action film department are busy putting out the fire and have no time to take care of him for a while.

Ronan, far away in Manchester, England, also got a lot of relevant information from Chris.

The matter is very obvious. The three giants of DreamWorks have been operating in the North American entertainment industry for many years. The six major companies cannot stop them from establishing North American distribution channels, but they do not want DreamWorks to jump out of the channels of the six major companies and have independent overseas distribution channels.

Compared with DreamWorks, small companies like Relativity Entertainment are not taken into consideration by the Six Major.

Ronan has also heard some news about DreamWorks and the six major companies. It is said that as early as two or three years ago, executives of the six giants met and reached an agreement on certain things. Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney, Sony Columbia and Twentieth Century Fox are competing with each other while collaborating, but new companies other than traditional forces are never allowed to join them to share the biggest piece of cake.

In this regard, the six major companies, even the declining MGM, naturally stood together.

Steven Spielberg is one of the most popular directors in Hollywood, but DreamWorks is not just Spielberg's DreamWorks, but even Spielberg's DreamWorks, major companies will mercilessly suppress it.

This time, led by Sony Entertainment, even Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures, which have the closest cooperation with Spielberg, joined in.

The six major companies would rather Polykin Pictures’ overseas distribution channels fall into the hands of Relativity Entertainment, which is not threatening at all, than let DreamWorks take it down.

Chris even told Ronan on the phone that Universal Pictures had considered not to dismiss some of Polygon Pictures' employees in a short period of time.

Fortunately, this is Universal Pictures’ last choice, and Universal Pictures doesn’t want to bear too much labor costs.

PolyGin Pictures has a large number of employees, and any company that takes over will have a headache. Fortunately, Ronan only has the distribution department.

DreamWorks has not contacted each other for a long time. The people from the British Red Bus Pictures have been to Manchester, but the scale of Red Bus Pictures is not even as large as Polygon Pictures. The psychology of people walking to high places is widespread. In addition, Ronan is lobbying, and Allen Albert and Danny Donald did not consider the Red Bus Company at all.

On Christmas Day, Ronan and the two finally reached an agreement.

After Christmas, the group returned to London. Allen Albert and Danny Donald quickly completed the procedures from Polykin Pictures, which was preparing to dismiss the staff. Under the witness of lawyers from both parties, Ronan signed a formal employment contract with them on behalf of Embassy Pictures.

After more than ten days of hard work, we finally got these two people together.

"Welcome to join Embassy Pictures." Ronan shook hands with Allen Albert and Danny Donald one by one: "From now on, we will be a family."

Allen Albert made his choice and stopped shaking and said, "It is my honor to join the Embassy Films."

Danny Donald said kindly: "I believe this is the beginning of success."

Faced with high-end talents with capital, recruitment is a two-way choice, and Ronan is also very satisfied that the two of them finally joined the Embassy Film Company.

In this contract, the salary conditions are the same as what Ronan said before, and like the executives of many film companies in the circle, they also note the terms of competition.

In addition, the overseas distribution department of Embassy Films will be separately listed and will not be incorporated into Thomas' theater distribution department.

This is also Ronan's promise to them.

Of course, as long as the time is right, Ronan will definitely transfer a large number of new personnel to overseas distribution channels, so that Embassy Film will truly master overseas distribution channels.

After signing the contract, the work was just beginning. After Ronan had a deep conversation with Allen Albert and Danny Donald, Allen Albert began to contact the previous members of the distribution team one by one, while Danny Donald went to Polykin Pictures, which was scattered, to handle the follow-up matters.

A group of employees who are about to be dismissed heard the department leaders say that there is a better choice, and most of them chose to follow. Nearly 50 major members of overseas distribution channels stationed around the world chose to join the Embassy Film Industry.

The group of people quickly returned to London, completed various procedures with Polykin Pictures, and then signed a contract with Embassy Pictures.

Ronan also interviewed these people one by one, accompanied by Allen Albert and Danny Donald, to calm people's hearts.

The generous salary, perfect benefits, affinity boss, as well as the world-renowned "The Witch" and "The God of Death", plus the prestige of Allen Albert and Danny Donald, it can not only dispel these people's doubts, but at least it can make them temporarily calm down and work.

It was busy until after the New Year that Ronan simply handled these things.

Allen Albert and Danny Donald need to go to Los Angeles to work. Both are bachelors and are relatively free to come and go.

Most of the others are stationed in various branches overseas, and the impact is not very big.

These people left Polykin Pictures and naturally needed a new office location to build overseas offices in Embassy Pictures.

Ronan has already reserved nearly $30 million in funds specifically for the establishment of overseas offices.

Now the scale of Embassy Film and Relativity Entertainment is limited. After the growth and growth in the future, it will be easier to establish overseas branches based on these overseas offices.

Borrowing the conference room of the Hilton Hotel, a meeting of the overseas distribution department was held. Ronan gave the people a few days off and asked them to rush to the Embassy Film Headquarters in Burbank, Los Angeles in a week and then go to various places.

For such channels, we need to appropriately delegate power to the person in charge of the channel, monitor it well, and also have to improve rules and regulations. The six major Hollywood companies and some distribution companies have long formed a successful general model, and there are basically no differences. As long as appropriate modifications are made based on the actual situation of the Embassy Film Company, it can be used.
Chapter completed!